In Sweden, when leaving someone's home, wait until you get to the doorway to step outside before putting on your coat. To do so earlier suggests you are eager to leave. When entering or departing a Russian home, it is ...Read More

The youngest performer to win an Oscar was Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Paper Moon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. In old England, when customers became unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own "pints and quarts" and settle down. From that, we got the abbreviated ...Read More

Henry Cavendish, one of the great scientists of the 1700s, was painfully shy and could barely speak to one person -- never to two. He was so timid in the presence of women that he communicated with his female servants by ...Read More

Sir Isaac NewtonAccording to various tales passed down over the years, none other than Sir Isaac Newton was experimenting with light in a darkened room and one of his most prized cats (reportedly named "Spithead") kept ...Read More

As Count von Zeppelin had died in 1917, Dr. Hugo Eckener, a man who had long before envisioned dirigibles as vessels of peace rather than warfare, took command of the Zeppelin business. With the Treaty of Versailles having...Read More